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• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  . Oh hey, don’t mind me, I’m just an elephant strollin’ down Mem Drive ... those well-known campus-wide facts that everyone looks forward to but isn’t ... the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I ... - answers to all your questions. Promise. (I say that a lot, don't I?) ... kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... "yield"), we admitted 1597 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  cupboard above my sink (I have a sink!) is broken and I don’t know how to fix ... As a kid, I only moved [annotation note="twice if you count going ... twelve. My big sisters were excited about the new house, but I wasn’t. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , because for once, I don’t want a fresh start.[annotation note="but I’m ... Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... "]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  ride a motorcycle upside down. Wait, don’t try this. I’m serious. Don’t ... despair, “but nothing works. I don’t even know how to start.” “I’m stuck ... could see the second half. We solved the problem together. It wasn’t a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  hotels, as his insurance wouldn't arrange a hotel room for us until that ... started reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I'm only about a ... usually just forget coding basics since I haven't been coding for a very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  that was a game." My top favorite Wikipedia articles Max Headroom I’m a ... If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  that just because something has been done for a long time doesn’t ... considering our evolving views about a gender-focused social system, we wouldn't ... This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  definition of ice climbing, I don't know it. But a layman's definition might be ... repeat. (If that's not how you climb a ladder....well I don't know what to ... how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... didn't know anyone who had been accepted I did not really know who went

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... barely slept, my brain is completely liquid, I haven't had a real meal in ... had barely slept in the previous week, hadn't eaten a real full meal in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  problem set classes don't have four exams. Most have two: a midterm and a ... don't need to have problem sets. A notable example is 6.101 Fundamentals ... other assignments, worth 14%. What about 21M.401 Concert Choir? It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... get excited about. Currently, I'm in a cafe in "Old Town" Las Vegas, New ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  I mention I'm anosmic?). But other jobs, like the MATCH school, don't ... engineering a person can take, but I have a high tolerance for music. I don't ... '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  , and my study plan totals 31. I'm also planning to take a 2 week German ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017